HI REMY!!!Have not heard from you in a long time just wondering how you are doing?...Just pecked a vote for you my dear friend...Hope yo are having a nice day..With many of my angel wing hugs to you ...Angel Cinnamon :o)

Introduction to Doves (Conclusion)Doves are divided into two groups: seed-eaters and fruit-eaters. Fruit-eaters are difficult birds to maintain in captivity and are not suitable as pets. All common pet doves are in the seed-eating group. (However, doves need food, in addition to their seeds, that I will mention at a later time in a blog on diets.) The most common pet doves are the diamond dove and the ringneck dove.

This week I have introduced doves and gave you information, which included their family, their origin, and even how diamond doves acquired their name. I hope you found this information interesting as well as educational.

Next week, I will provide information on the care of doves as pets.

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The Diamond Dove's Origin,The diamond dove is native to Australia. They exist near water but where it is lightly or semi-dry, which is in Central, West, and Northern Australia. They are occasionally seen in Southern Australia in parks and gardens in the Centre(the sparsely inhabited central region of Australia) where it is very dry.

As part of my BOTM campaign, I will be taking a trip to my native country to see some of the tourist attractions. If any of my BC friends would like to join me for this adventure, please let me know in your blog. This will take place toward the end of the month after I have finished giving you my information on doves.

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Doves have a narrow beak that is slightly curved at the tip. Unlike most birds, doves drink by sucking up water through their beak like a straw, without tilting their head back to swallow. The base of their beak is relatively soft and hardens toward the tip.

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Their legs are relatively short and clearly scaled. They have strong feet and nails. Their toes are anisodactyl, which means that three toes are pointed forward and one backward.

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The diamond dove has approximately 17 color mutations. Their normal coloration is brownish gray to gray with an abdomen that is a creamy white color. Adults have coral-colored eye rings, an olive brown beak, and flesh colored feet and legs. They have specks on their feathers that looks like they were sprinkled with diamond dust. This is how diamond doves got their name.

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What Are Doves?Doves are small pigeons, although there are differences between them. Pigeons are larger and stockier whereas doves are smaller and sleeker. However, there are exceptions to this rule. Both doves and pigeons are muscular with short necks and heads on stout bodies. Their long wings are powered by flight muscles. These muscles can make up to approximately 40% of their body weight. The diamond dove, which only grows about 6 to 8 inches and weighs approximately an ounce, is the smallest dove.

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Vote Chipper for BOTM,For those of you who don't know me, my name is Chipper and I am a diamond dove. I will be running in April for the BOTM in May. Since we are not your typical parrot-type pet, I will be sharing with you each day, in a brief blog, some interesting facts on doves.

Your votes are appreciated. Thanking you in advance for your support and leaving a vote too!

Hello Remington~I hope you are having a wonderful day. I'm getting some computer time this morning! It's been way to busy around here lately and I just don't like it! Yesterday we took a break in the morning and watched Catching Fire. I really like it! Lots of action and you know I love action movies! Today we are getting a bit of cooking done and getting mom ready to start her work week. She is going in an hour early tonight since I have been told we are losing an hour tonight! I really don't see any reason that the time has to change! It seems to be working just fine the way it is! Mom went to Petco to get my Higgins Sunburst and they are out of it again! They say the warehouse is out of it so there is nothing they can do. She got me some Higgins Safflower Gold and it sort of looks and smells the same to me. There are no sunflower seeds in it but that is okay with me! It's only part of what I eat everyday so as long as she keeps a big supply of apples I will be a happy zon! Spring is inching ever closer and that is making the frog outside my window go crazy! It started with just a few of them but last night it sounded like there were about a thousand of them out there! As long as they are here to announce spring I suppose I can put up with them! I do hope you enjoy your day! Leaving a vote and a big hug as I waddle off! Love you ~ Sugar

Hi RemyAttention Spurs !!!!! Just a quick reminder to let you know we will be playing game four against the Warriors at their stadium Thursday Febuary 13th at 3PM pacific time... Be there or be square !!!!

Hello Remington~Stopping by to let you know how very sorry we are about Charlie. We had tears in our eyes when we were reading your mom's email! We hope that knowing you are all in our thoughts and prayers will help your family get through this difficult and sad time! You guys remember that I love you ~ Sugar

HI REMY & FLOCK!!!Thanks for stopping by and Congrats me on being BOTD...So nice to hear from you again....Hope you are enjoying your day....Just pecked a vote for you....With many birdie wing hugs to you....Sam :o)

Hello Remington~I hope your are having a great day! I've been having fun playing with mom and snacking of course. She is letting me watch a really cool monster movie called Pacific Rim. It has robots and monsters! Too Cool! I'm sorry I haven't been around much but the computer is still not working well. We have the files moved and we are just waiting for dad to do the reformatting. He's been busy so there hasn't been any time for him to start doing it yet. I sure am getting anxious about it! It is running very slowly and we can only use Google Chrome to get online. I hope I can convince him to get it done today! After that we have to reload all the programs so that is going to take some time too! Boy! Computers sure are a pain sometimes! Nothing really exciting going on around here. We've been working on chores around the house during mom's off hours and watching the movies that brother bought after Christmas. I have seen Iron Man 3, Star Trek Into Darkness and Man of Steel and now Pacific Rim. It's been a real action-packed weekend around here and I have really enjoyed it! I must admit that the popcorn is pretty good too!! Enjoy your day and I do hope it's perfect! Love, hugs and a vote ~ Sugar

Hello Remington~I hope your day was just wonderful! I had a lot of fun supervising chores around here! I think maybe I had more fun than mom did but she is happy that I am happy!

I have been checking out the other animal channel sites and it looks likes the Cat channel is getting changed on January 1st instead of March 1st. Cori and Boo Boo gave me a heads up about this. There was a blog on the small animal channel so they know. but there doesn't seem to be any blogs on the Horse or Dog channel. I don't know if they are going to be left alone or if they just don't know yet.

I am so sad we are going to lose all of this but I hope we will all stay in touch, either with Facebook or email. I am grateful for every single minute I have had visiting with friends, playing baseball and all the other fun things we do here! To think! This all came into my life because mom and I were looking for pictures of birds for me to look at!!

Hello Remington~I hope you are having a wonderful day! Nothing much going on around here but since it's been a while since I came to say hello, I figured I better get over here! We had a bit of snow last night but it's only on the lawns. Very windy today and it's suppose to stay cold the whole week. They keep changing the lows from 11 to 21 and now to 19. It's cold and that's all that matters. Please give Athena and Mackenzie my love! Love, hugs and a vote ~ Sugar

Hello RemingtonFor my BOTM campaign I am going to be using my Star Trek Enterprise shuttlecraft, the Galileo, to take us on far flung adventures. From the very bottom of Earth’s deepest seas to the far reaches of the Universe.

Step into my shuttle & strap in every birdie. Here we go down to The Mariana Trench the deepest spot on earth’s seas. 6.831 miles (36,069 ft) deep at the Challenger Deep.

In 1960 the bathyscaphe Trieste with U.S. Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard, (I think he is Captain Piccards grand father. LOL), on board, made the 4 hours and 47 minutes trip down there only to stay for 20 minutes. Sometime during the descent they lost the ability to communicate with their support ships. The two men inside did not see much due to all the sediment they stirred up when they reached the bottom. They did see a sole or flounder fish about 30 cm (1 ft) long, and a shrimp

While on the bottom, Piccard and Walsh unexpectedly regained the ability to communicate with the surface ship, USS Wandank (ATA-204), using a sonar/hydrophone voice communications system. At a speed of almost a mile per second (about five times the speed of sound in air), it took about seven seconds for a voice message to travel from the craft to the surface ship and another seven seconds for answers to return.

The upper blimp looking section was filled with regular high-octane automotive gasoline. Gas floats on water so the “blimp” wanted to float. There were 2 containers, one on each end of the “blimp”, filled with led pellets to make it sink. A magnetic door was turned off when they were ready to ascend. It took them 3 hours, 15 minutes to regain the surface after releasing their lead ballast.

Happy Thanksgiving,RemyHope you and your flock and family are enjoying the big day of food! We got some corn on the cob which we love! Did you get anything special? I enjoy seeing your pictures. Is that your family and your yard? Those deer are cool. Big hugs! Your baseball buddy, Budweiser

How are you doing? It's your Friend, Parker and I just wanted to say Hello and wish you and your Family a very Happy Thanksgiving. Hope all is well and that you all have a great day. Here's a vote for you.

Winghugs, Parker P.S. Maybe I'll see you at Practice tonight. I'm flying over there now.

Tomorrow morning is my last day at the KB. We had so much fun while I was there. We had snowball fights, made gingerbread houses, watched movies and listened to music, we played games, and even went sledding. There was a lot of good food there too. I want to thank everyone that brought food and helped with the activities. We had such a great time!! I also would like to thank every birdie that came to the booth.

Hello Mars FlockThank you so much for spending my special day with me, I sure had a lot of fun, and it seemed like the other birds were having fun too, thats what I like to see. So how are you doing? Are you up to anything fun today? I am sorry I am just getting back to you, we dont get on here as much as we used to moms schedule has interupted my social life!!! Well I hope all is well, and thanks again for BOTD wishes Birdy hugs. Love Chico

Hi RemyThank you all for stopping by my new Tell Me a Story page. How eggciting to be named BOTD on the second day. My hope is that it will become a fun, happy place to share fun adventures with all of you. It is fabulous to read the funny additions to the new story.

Little Angel finishes with the hammer and still pretending not to see the growing crowd of interested birdies, she climbs up onto the cannon and peers into the big hole where the snow comes from. "AH HA!" she says with a smile on her beak. She reaches into her jacket pocket and pulls out her cell phone and texts someone quickly. The answer comes instantly and LA puts the phone safely back into her pocket. Climbing down carefully she gathers all the tools laying strewn about and carries them into the tool shed. "I wonder what she's doing?" Polly says to Cori and Boo Boo. " it just can't be good. Somehow Little Angel always ends up in some sorta predicament." "SKY, do you have any idea what she's doing over there?" Falco asks a worried look upon her beautiful face "NOPE. She hasn't said a word to me." Willie, Pepino, Raffi, Pearl, Silver and Picabo stop their work on their snow fort and join Sky with the girls. Suddenly Little Angel reappears from the tool shed humming away happily to herself. She takes a look around and finally acknowledges the group of concerned observers. "Hello, what's goin' on?" she chuckles to herself softly." I didn't even hear you arrive." Just then a loud rumble begins in the distance, quickly growing closer by the second. The sky becomes dark as BB's shuttle hovers above them, slowly coming to the ground near Little Angel. BB hops out and scurries around the back of the shuttle where LA is waiting. As the others watch on in silence, BB and Little Angel can be heard banging and thumping behind the parked shuttle. BB heads to the tool shed and returns with a big can and a screw driver. "Bang, clank, crunch..." the noises suddenly stop and BB returns to the tool shed. Jasper, who had remained at the snowball reserve, could see that BB had added a large addition to the cannon, frowned and waddled quickly across the KB to find Sky and the others. " I might be mistaken" Jasper exclaims, " but I could have been certain that BB and LA just poured what looked like coconut into the snow cannon...." come and tell me a STORY

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